Highlight at non-insertion point

[hs]

I have bookmarks in a Word document corresponding to areas
of text I would like to highlight based upon events
external to Word.

Is there a way to highlight text within those bookmarks
without temporarily shifting the insertion point of the
document to the area that I want to highlight.

In other words, the user could be typing in some other
part of the document when these external events occur, and
I do not want either the user to be interrupted or some of
the charcters they are typing to be inserted at the wrong
spot.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Hs,

I have bookmarks in a Word document corresponding to areas
of text I would like to highlight based upon events
external to Word.

Is there a way to highlight text within those bookmarks
without temporarily shifting the insertion point of the
document to the area that I want to highlight.

Sure, you just have to work directly with the RANGE object,
instead of Selection. Roughly:


ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Name").Range.HighlightColorIndex =
wdTurquoise

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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